In a lurking-place I lurk,
One with the sullen dark.
(Theodore Roethke, "All the Earth, All the Air")
Effective Rust [2021-2024]: published by O'Reilly
Map of Rust Result/Option transformations. (short-link: tinyurl.com/rust-transform) [2020]
Collection of tips for making use of the Travis continuous integration system. [2015-2016]
Fuzzing Linux system calls with syzkaller (at LWN) [2016]
Linux execve processing (at LWN) [2015]
Linux syscall processing (at LWN) [2014]
"High-Quality Software Engineering", a book about software engineering [2007]. Available as:
Linux/FreeBSD system call concordance [2014-2015].
Linux cross-version/cross-architecture system call concordance [2015].
A book on Lindy Hop (but un-illustrated, therefore probably of limited use) [2007, but released 2012].
Pynamo: Exploring the Dynamo paper in Python [2012]
Visual reference for Git [2011]
Beginner's Guide to Linkers [2005].
Rough guide to open-source licenses [2011].
Translation rosetta stone for scripting languages [2005].
Translation table for UNIX debugger commands (gdb, lldb, dbx, adb, sdb) [2007, 2014].
Learning Clojure through the REPL [2012].
Notes on creating a decent printed copy of Paul Graham's "On Lisp" [2011]
A blog with random technical observations. [2011-2012]
A blog about setting up and tweaking a Mac OS X laptop (mostly for future reference if I ever have to reinstall from scratch). [2005-2008]
Another blog, including some more technical entries:
Review of, notes on and references related to Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind Of Science". [2002]
A Tutorial Introduction to Guile [2000].
An article investigating similarities between C++ and Lisp [2000].
“Our almost-instinct almost true: what will survive of us is code”
Rust port of Tink cryptography library.
python-phonenumbers, a Python port of Google's libphonenumber for parsing and formatting telephone numbers [2011].
coset, a Rust crate holding types for working with COSE data
Test suite for the PKCS#11 API.
A button for Thrutu to allow lookup of the phone number you're talking to in Yelp [2011]. [Removed due to takedown request from Yelp (despite them approving in the first place and providing an API key).]
Equivalents of UNIX nm and ldd
utilities for analysing Java class files and jar files [2011].
Android tool for exploring what libraries are already present on the system [2011].
xwindiff, a graphical diffing tool for X11/Unix [2000-2004].
A collection of C++ utility functions [2000].
Tesserax – a Java applet game [1996].
replot, a PDE plotting tool for X11/Unix [1995].
A noddy stick figure animation program (as a Java applet) [2006].
A Java applet to test attentional blink [2006].
A MineSweeper game for PalmOS [2005].
PalmOS RoboRally game [2003].
Experimental changes to Maxima to provide a feature that translates Maxima expressions into presentation MathML [2003].
GridFont assistant Java applet [2001].
Bass guitar scales [PDF] [2019].
White noise audio files [2007].
(PDF, 2648KB) Homoclinic Bifurcations in Partial Differential Equations [1994].
Spherical harmonics reference page [2007].
English grammar reference page [2007].